Barbara Gorelick Poet Personification

A Pear Tree

I know I'm surely not the most beautiful tree
For my leaves and form are really quite plain
All year I quietly stand and bide my time
In the fall I bear fruit, the waiting not in vain..

Finally my branches yield globes of green an gold
I bear their weight with pride and such delight
With reluctant pleasure at last I let them go
My yearly efforts a beautiful fall delight...

The season passes and comes the rain and snow
Then it seems in a much different role I'm cast
For a lovely partridge on my branch will perch
And just perhaps I am really beautiful at last......

8/5/15

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Robert Lindley September 4, 2015 at 6:37 PM Love this wonderful tree poem my friend. Trees and I have love one another since I was no bigger than a grasshopper it seems. A7 my friend. Barbara Gorelick September 5, 2015 at 3:15 PM thanks ! It apparently was not good enough to rate in the contest..glad you liked it though. BG

Andrea Dietrich August 28, 2015 at 6:05 PM oh wow, you ended with the partridge for XMas. LOVED that. I think yours is the only fruit tree I have yet come across. WELL DONE, Barbara. I should have done cherry tree. those are so beautiful!!

Viv Wigley August 26, 2015 at 8:56 PM Lovely write, Barbara. My Pear tree is bearing fruit now, so I will talk to it more. Viv x

Tim Smith August 26, 2015 at 3:45 PM I do like a pear tree and you made it feel...I really like it...Tim Barbara Gorelick August 26, 2015 at 5:12 PM thanks Tim..All the good looking trees were taken..the story of my life...haha ..Barbara

Theresa Cw August 26, 2015 at 2:24 PM Oh how I love how you penned this vibrant pear tree and especially the very last stanza Barbara--great luck in the contest.... live, laugh love hugs Theresa Barbara Gorelick August 26, 2015 at 2:35 PM What a sweet comment..thank you! BG

Anne-Lise Andresen August 26, 2015 at 1:39 PM - The daily, imperfect life has its own beauty - Our hearts know, our eye see how good and beautiful it is - luck in the contest, dear Phyllis ! - hugs // Anne-Lise :) Barbara Gorelick August 26, 2015 at 1:46 PM wonder if this was meant for Phyllis? lol BG